The purpose of this book is unchanged: to present the basic information necessary to design simple steel structures in a way that creates interes interest in the subject.
The work of the steel structures research commitee.by sir jhon baker formerly technical officer to the committee. most of the chapters in this manual deal with elastic theory and the 'elastic'design methods but chapter 22 gives an outline of the plastic theory of struktures, the study of which began 30 year ago, and of the plastic or 'collapse method og design which is comming more and more int…
This second edition is based on the new 1978 edition of the specification moreover, on september 1, 1978 the rollings mills of the major steel producer in this country initiated production of a new series of wide- flange shapes that has required revision of most of the illustrative examplesprovide in this second edition.